Re: Carrot Week 2012!

ericam 4/25/2012, 7:16 am

Yay!

CarolinaGirl 4/25/2012, 9:44 am

Day 8 for me. I've got some sprouts in the Danvers Half Long square, but the Nantes square for carrot week is still sproutless.

**Turan** 4/25/2012, 12:00 pm

Day 13 and I have a sprout! Carrot Week 2012! - Page 6 998388915

There is also a potato sprout. Very Happy

CarolinaGirl 4/25/2012, 6:16 pm

CarolinaGirl wrote:Day 8 for me. I've got some sprouts in the Danvers Half Long square, but the Nantes square for carrot week is still sproutless.

Scratch that... I went out after work to check out the boxes. I now have Scarlet Nantes sprouts as well. cheers

**RoOsTeR** 4/25/2012, 7:28 pm

It's great to hear everyone's progress!! It'll be interesting as this rolls along. Very Happy

Susie9 4/25/2012, 9:02 pm

Day 9... No sprouts yet.

FamilyGardening 4/25/2012, 10:12 pm

day 14......one....sprout Razz

hugs

rose

kbb964 4/26/2012, 3:58 pm

Day 10 and I have 2 Nantes sprouts !! whoohooo !

I also have a radish........ not where i planted it lol

arla 4/27/2012, 6:54 pm

Day 12, carrots are definitely appearing, although the picture does not really do it justice so I won't post one.

**RoOsTeR** 4/29/2012, 10:25 am

arla wrote:Day 12, carrots are definitely appearing, although the picture does not really do it justice so I won't post one.

Ah, that's part of the fun! Watching your progress Smile

My little seedlings took a pretty nasty beating from the recent winds Evil or Very Mad

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I've still got more sprouting up every few days Carrot Week 2012! - Page 6 3170584802

GWN 4/29/2012, 10:36 am

day 14 and one sprout. Carrot Week 2012! - Page 6 1280598131

FamilyGardening 4/29/2012, 1:13 pm

FamilyGardening wrote:day 14......one....sprout

hugs

rose

day 18......that ONE sprout is gone Shocked

hugs

rose.....who wonders where it went?? and no others have shown up What a Face

givvmistamps 4/29/2012, 3:49 pm

Well, you couldn't see the boys' sprouts when I posted the other day...so here's another go at it.

Here's my younger son's square; he planted at least 50 seeds and told me he wants to let them grow to see what happens:

And here's my older son's square; he planted one per spot except in one location which has already shown the two sprouts:

The sprouts seem to be flopping over despite watering gently, and no wind like Rooster's getting. Carrot Week 2012! - Page 6 601593

**jamesindetroit** 4/30/2012, 9:55 pm

day 16...still no sprouts here.

ericam 5/1/2012, 3:46 am

Here's my sprouts today, growing nicely, I did get a bit sloppy with the seeds though so thinning definately required!

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AvaDGardner 5/1/2012, 8:44 pm

gingeandhales wrote:Question: Does anyone know of a good resource to help identify plants before the true leaves appear?

First leaves are very similar for many plants. That's why true leaves are so important!

If you find a resource, please start a new thread with the news!

plantoid 5/1/2012, 8:54 pm

givvmistamps wrote:Well, you couldn't see the boys' sprouts when I posted the other day...so here's another go at it.

Here's my younger son's square; he planted at least 50 seeds and told me he wants to let them grow to see what happens:

And here's my older son's square; he planted one per spot except in one location which has already shown the two sprouts:

The sprouts seem to be flopping over despite watering gently, and no wind like Rooster's getting.

WRT the bottom picture :- The top few inches looks rather dry from the picture .

Gently flood the whole bed using the hose pipe without any nozzles on , just lay the pipe in the bed , place the hose on a large plate or tray and weigh it down , check you are not going to wash any plants or seed away , then 1/4 turn the water on , then go and check it's still OK . If you can afford to , leave it on for a good ten minutes to really soak /flood the whole bed.

AvaDGardner 5/1/2012, 9:05 pm

Well...of the 16 Scarlet Nantes spots planted, I have 10 sprouts! Ironically, of those on the south, there are 3 sprouts each, on on the north there are 2 each.

And of those intended to be "funny" (2-3 seeds per spot) only one has come up in those places! It will be interesting to see what happens.

If more pop up from this point, I will be surprised.

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Ava

doneal 5/1/2012, 9:44 pm

Here is a pic of my carrots "tendersweet" at day 37 after I thinned them.

doneal 5/1/2012, 9:50 pm

Atomic red carrots at day 17

Purple haze carrots at day 17

**jamesindetroit** 5/2/2012, 10:53 pm

Okay...so, almost 20 days, and not a single sprout in the box I planted for "long" scarlet nantes. I do have some sprouts in the short box I planted, so I suppose those will have to be the contest carrots.

I did replant the box for long nantes. Can I have a bye?

Smile

givvmistamps 5/2/2012, 11:52 pm

We planted on April 18, less than half the seeds sprouted, and now they're slowly dying off. I have watered them the same as or more than I did the Tendersweet started two weeks earlier (it's been hot here), and the Tendersweet did much better. Mad

I don't know if it's the seeds we got or what, but we're just not having much luck with the Scarlet Nantes.

JennAndCompany 5/3/2012, 12:49 am

LOOK - I found my carrots! Now I can plant the other squares around them!!

Here are some other pictures of the garden:

The last square (above the Romaine in this image) is also filled with radishes and carrots - both seem to be growing as planned!

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FamilyGardening 5/3/2012, 2:33 am

its almost day 22 for us.....the one sprout we had is still gone ( what would eat the sprout??) and there are no others showing.....when do you replant?

we are having a really hard time with carrots this year.....we have some planted in our SFG's and others in our new raised beds.....one type in our raised beds have all sprouted very well....we planted about 10 differnt types and the rest of them only had a couple germ.....:scratch:

we over winted some carrots too....they are tall...over a foot...lush and green..but only about an inch of the top root end has grown and is orange....the rest is like a long white root.....then...the really skinny root part..... Carrot Week 2012! - Page 6 1280598131

sorry if this is not the right thread for our questions What a Face

hugs

rose

kbb964 5/3/2012, 10:42 am

Day 17 for Nantes.

about ten sprouts in one bed and ZERO in bed 2 with the top hat!

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